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Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that he was up here to try to either give instructio.ns, or assuming that he had al ready been. elected and . . . . . . denying· that, you know, Coke was on the defensive: .. He had with him a young man, Bob Murphy, Robert Mu.rphy, who· later
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the specific problems as possible to the agencies, but many of them bring up matters of principle . I'll give you an example of the type of thing that can happen . Dr . Robert Holley who I guess yesterday or day before yesterday received the Nobel Prize
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were at home? W: When Kennedy was assassinated? G: Yes. W: Yes, we were at home. G: Do you remember when the first time was you talked to LBJ after that? W: I don't know whether he came down here or whether we went to Washington. We went so
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Civil Rights Bill of 1964; LBJ calls Pickle to commend him on his vote; Pickle votes against open housing; Pickle as "President Johnson's Congressman;" Robert Poage and Williamson County; regrets voting against open housing; LBJ, Yarborough
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- President Johnson, and this is not to make invidious comparisons for one or the other because any comparison is invidious. President Johnson is a much more through-channel President than President Kennedy was. I was never particularly surprised to get
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had been selected by the Republican caucus to be chairman of what we call the Republican Policy Committee in the time Senator Robert Taft was the Republican leader of the Senate. When he went to the hospital he asked me to sit in as the acting leader
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Geissinger -- I -- 3 So, anyhow, Oki had been there the whole time. there, I know, since Kennedy's administration. was, exactly when. tration. Frank had been I don't know when that Bob Knudsen had
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he was more knowledgeable than most laymen about the impact of environment on the psychological and social development of children largely because over the years he had been the executive director of the Kennedy Foundation. The Kennedy Foundation
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • through, up goes the windows, off goes the air conditioning, and they all get down on the floor, on the tile floor where it's cool. But to please us, they get in the bed. And we insisted--Kennedy got in on a lot of this; he'd come over there. G
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the program was on the day that Kennedy was assassinated. So that it began in 1963. I was with the program from the time that it was enacted and funded, and left in September 1966. G: You were there through an awful lot of certainly the formative period
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That didn't come about until whose time, Kennedy's? Or was it Eisenhower's? It was Eisenhower's. It was Eisenhower's, because Oveta Culp 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and really "agency" isn't the correct word for them. They go by many other names--sometimes they're called commissions, sometimes panels, sometimes committees, and sometimes task forces. The term "task force" developed, I think, in either the late Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • turn the task of handling the assignments over to the Steering Committee, because if he had, he would never have been able to get freshmen senators such as Kennedy and the others some of the positions that he got for them on major committees. tion
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • don't need to do more than sort of place it as part of the backdrop, because this stuff was going up all the time in draft form, but this was typical of President Johnson's period as of President Kennedy's before it--that a great deal of the most
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in getting the poverty legislation through the Congress. number of points. The fact of the matter is a great number of administration people worked on the Hill. testified. This was evident in a Many of them went up and The attorney general, Robert
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Robert Kennedy was appointed as Attorney General he appointed Dave Hackett, who had been his college roommate-G: An Olympic hockey player? S: Right--to look into problems of juvenile delinquency. As first parts of that effort, Dave came to the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I had undc:l"s !:c
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • meant Kennedy. When he talked about his conversation with Dean, you knew it was Rusk. When he talked about anybody in any position at all, he used nicknames and first names, and I think he had the chief justice of the Supreme Court that came out
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was maneuvered precisely, I do not know. G: Did you ever hear that Senator [Robert] Kerr also wanted the whip position? K: No. No, and I would rather doubt it. I think that if Kerr had wanted something, it \vould have been the leadership. he would have
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were doing a great job, and to me they were sort of worthless, but it was a drill we had to go through. When [Robert] Komer came in it even got worse. In fact, it got ridiculous. But, be that as it may, the only way I could describe it was if I took
  • Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the enemy in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was, I punched the red button to the President's office, and Juanita Roberts answered. I said, "I must see the President immediately." She said, "Just a minute." [Then] she said, "Come right in." I turned to Buzz, who was a little startled at this, and I
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • became president, Lord only knows what sort of commitments he knew of that we, the public, had no idea about, as a carryover from John F. Kennedy. But he must have had some. He certainly didn't feel free to clean his house and start over with his own
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the thirty-first speech. Now I want to shift to what we might call another chapter in my observations of LBJ and the presidency and that period of time and discuss what I and other folks have referred to as the Kennedy cult. Not the Kennedy clan. The Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the other hand probably the candidate that I most closely identified with because of my own personal background was Hubert Humphrey. And you know if you had just given me the choice ideally, I think I probably would have picked Humphrey. Kennedy in the early
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • vantage point there . O: The 1960 convention, of course, was held in Los Angeles . I was a delegate to the convention from Massachusetts as a delegate for Jack Kennedy . campaign . I had been an advance man on the Kennedy came out with a real
  • 1960 election; the Kennedys; relationship with LBJ; Massachusetts politics; Vietnam War; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Education bill; LBJ's persuasive ability
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stockpile, and President Kennedy had asked the Senate to have an investigation, specifically he had asked Symington who was chairman of the Stockpile Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Symington asked Kennedy to send someone up
  • for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Tucson and had to resign that pOSition. After the nomination of Mr. Stevenson and when the Convention was thrown open for selection, Jack Kennedy was nominated for Vice President, and I led the opposition to President Kennedy on the Arizona delegation
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • NTERV I EWEE: MYLTON L. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Kennedy's residence, Denver, Colorado Tape of 1 G: Let's start with your first acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson. You indicated earlier that you arrived on the campus
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Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAN FENN INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: You are Dan Fenn, currently director of the Kennedy Library and lecturer at Harvard Business School. Your government association during the Johnson years
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because of Joe Kennedy's record in the past, if they felt like he shouldn't be on the ticket with Joe Kennedy's son. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Reactions of Johnson supporters to LBJ’s acceptance of Vice Presidential nomination, meeting of Johnson organization with Kennedy organization at Hyannis Port, campaign train trip in the South with LBJ in 1960, 1964 campaign trip with Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEt~ I DATE: November, 1968 I NTERV I E~IEE : VANN M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Corpus
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Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the election of 1960, when all four of us went into the government. F: Yes. M: So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson, and then to the Kennedys. F: How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to give him
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was so close to Mr . Johnson? J: No . B: Were those in Minnesota who objected? J: No . B: They seem to have made a very effective team in those Senate years . J: Yes . B: Before the convention, I understand that the : Kennedy people were very